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It is all about adaptation and sensitivity : the complexity of relational-interactive work in interpreter-mediated non-emergency healthcare in British Columbia, Canada
No full textThis research explores the experience of navigating relational work in interpreter-mediated non-emergency healthcare consultations. Using the lived-experience of six healthcare
sign language interpreters, this research reveals interpreter-mediated healthcare consultations as
a site of significant and shifting complexity. For those interviewed, adaptation and sensitivity to
the physical, social, and larger cultural factors at play within a healthcare consultation were
essential to effectively navigating relational-interactive work. Drawing on systems theory and
complex systems theory, and guided by post-intentional phenomenology, this research highlights
the interconnected and entangled nature of healthcare interpreting. Ultimately, this research
emphasizes that effective navigation of interpreter-mediated healthcare appointments involves an
ongoing co-learning and co-navigating process navigated between people, and the need to
address it as such.Graduate and Postdoctoral StudiesGraduat
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Civic patienthood : a critical grounded theory of how patients transform from clinical subjects to civic actors
No full textPatient engagement in health research is a multifaceted movement with different values, ideas, and interests animating its practice. Many of these values, ideas, and interests claim to be patient-centered, but the meaning of patient-centeredness tends to shift with perspective. How people understand the nature of the problems of illness plays a large role in how they navigate them and pursue solutions. The creation of collective “patient voices” that articulate “patient perspectives” drawn from “patient experiences” is central to the process of patient engagement in research. This is how patient engagement in research seeks to integrate ‘democratic’ processes within scientific research. In this context, the concerns of the “patient” are no longer medical per se, but civic. While health research systems are in the process of encouraging the transition to patient-engaged modes of research, there is currently little systematic understanding of how patients transform from clinical subjects to civic actors. This process has generated controversy about what a patient perspective is, how exactly it is rooted in patient experience, and how either of these can be represented in a singular voice in public affairs.
This dissertation explores how patient research partners in an arthritis research patient advisory board interpret their own experiences of health and illness and how this shapes their perspectives as patient research partners. From this basis, I form a theory of “modes of patienthood” that distinguish different realms of experience and modes of action implied by the term “patient.” To test this theory, I further examine civic patienthood in a second qualitative study of the experience of members of health research networks related to bipolar disorder and chronic kidney disease in their efforts at practicing patient engagement in research. The dissertation concludes with a critical reflection on the meaning of civic patienthood contextualized within history of medicine.Medicine, Faculty ofOccupational Science and Occupational Therapy, Department ofPhysical Therapy, Department ofGraduat
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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